ArticleRoyal Society open science2016
Life history factors, personality and the social clustering of sexual experience in adolescents.
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- The Effects of Hormonal Contraceptives on the Brain: A Systematic Review of Neuroimaging Studies.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Pooled it
- Sexual experiences and behaviours in the offspring generation of the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Childhood.Wellcome open research · 2024Article
- Addressing Learner-Centred Barriers to Sexuality Education in Rural Areas of South Africa: Learners' Perspectives on Promoting Sexual Health Outcomes.Sexuality research & social policy : journal of NSRC : SR & SP · 2023Article
- Sexual health of young people with perinatal HIV and HIV negative young people in England.PloS one · 2018Article
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Abstract
Adolescent sexual behaviour may show clustering in neighbourhoods, schools and friendship networks. This study aims to assess how experience with sexual intercourse clusters across the social world of adolescents and whether predictors implicated by life history theory or personality traits can account for its between-individual variation and social patterning. Using data on 2877 adolescents from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children, we ran logistic multiple classification models to assess the clustering of sexual experience by approximately 17.5 years in schools, neighbourhoods and friendship networks. We examined how much clustering at particular levels could be accounted for by life history predictors and Big Five personality factors. Sexual experience exhibited substantial clustering in friendship networks, while clustering at the level of schools and neighbourhoods was minimal, suggesting a limited role for socio-ecological influences at those levels. While life history predictors did account for some variation in sexual experience, they did not explain clustering in friendship networks. Personality, especially extraversion, explained about a quarter of friends' similarity. After accounting for life history factors and personality, substantial unexplained similarity among friends remained, which may reflect a tendency to associate with similar individuals or the social transmission of behavioural norms.
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